Grammar in action : building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction /

"Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates how it is possible to write comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Lingui...

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Other Authors:	Steensig, Jakob, 1958- (Editor), Jørgensen, Maria (Editor), Lindström, Jan K. (Editor), Mikkelsen, Nicholas (Editor), Suomalainen, Karita (Editor), Sørensen, Søren Sandager (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2025]
Series:	Studies in language and social interaction ; v. 37.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general. Discourse analysis > Social aspects. Conversation analysis. Social interaction. Grammaire comparée et générale. Analyse de la conversation. Interaction sociale. Conversation analysis Discourse analysis > Social aspects Grammar, Comparative and general Social interaction

Table of Contents:

Grammar in action : social interaction as a basis for a comprehensive grammar? / Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen
On granularity in grammar and action / Barbara Fox & Chase Raymond
'Idea-Suggestions' in an interactional grammar : sequential organization and grammatical formats / Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen & Sandra A. Thompson
Grammatical formats of requests for immediate actions : observations on danish talk-in-interaction / Jakob Steensig
Structurally 'incomplete' social action formats in the grammar of talk-in-interaction? The case of deontic infinitives in spoken German / Alexandra Gubina
Responses to specifying WH-questions and their place in a comprehensive grammar of interactional Danish / Maria Jørgensen
Parenthesis in storytelling in Danish talk-in-interaction / Nicholas Mikkelsen
The use of past tense formats in German talk-in-interaction / Sophia Fiedler
Second-person singular imperatives in Finnish everyday conversations : multifunctionality and routinization of grammatical formats / Karita Soumalainen
Copula variation in Danish and the intertwined nature of grammar / Søren Sandager Sørensen
An interactional grammar of insubordination : the case of French si 'if'-clauses / Simona Pekarek Doehler & Anne-Sylvie Horlacher
Action formation, projection, and participation framework : pseudoclefts in Swedish talk-in-interaction / Sofie Henricson & Jan Lindström
Other-extensions in Italian : a case of and for collaborative grammar / Virginia Calabria
Discussion : where are we now and what are the next steps toward an interactional grammar? / Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen.